Uploaded June 2022 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
I stopped mid-way through carving out this wet air pump to show you my process.
An Edward's type pump consists of two check valves, one of which is a suction check placed like a foot valve, the other is the piston itself, which is either arranged as a flap disc check or has several machined into its face, and is shaped like a bucket. This pump pulls condensate water and any non-condensible gasses out of a condenser against the vacuum present within it, and is driven by the main engine or its own separate steam engine.
Condensers are essential to running an efficient and powerful steam power plant and wet air pumps are essential to the operation of condensers.
I stopped mid-way through carving out this wet air pump to show you my process.
An Edward's type pump consists of two check valves, one of which is a suction check placed like a foot valve, the other is the piston itself, which is either arranged as a flap disc check or has several machined into its face, and is shaped like a bucket. This pump pulls condensate water and any non-condensible gasses out of a condenser against the vacuum present within it, and is driven by the main engine or its own separate steam engine.
Condensers are essential to running an efficient and powerful steam power plant and wet air pumps are essential to the operation of condensers.
